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Recently Tanmaya is one health kick and the only thing he eats through out the week is green salad and grilled chicken breast. So every other weekend he would get huge pack of boneless chicken from costco and I am left wondering how to make something tasty out of it that doesn't need a lot of oil , time and tastes good.So I decided to make kebabs. Ingredients: Boneless chicken: 3 thigh piecesGinger: 1 inchGarlic: 8 -10 clovesRed chilli: 4 wholeEgg: 1 wholeCoriander Seeds: 1 tspCumin Seeds: 1 tspTurmeric: 1 tspGreen chillies: 2 finely choppedGaram masala: 1/2 tspOnion: 1 small finely choppedChat Masala: 1 tspCorn Flour: 2 tspOil: 2 tspProcedures: Make a fine paste of ginger, garlic, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and red chilli. To this paste add egg and chicken and make a fine paste. Now take the grinded paste into an bowl Add chopped green chillies, chopped onion, garam masala, Corn Flour, and chat masala and mix well Now using the mix, make small patties. Place tawa on flame, heat oil. Pla…

Mix all the ingredients together except the water. Add water little at a time till we get a thick batter.Heat oil till drop of the batter rises immediately without getting brown. Now fry the gulgula batter 1 tsp at a time till it turns brown on all sides.Serve it hot with ghughuni or dalma and enjoy.

Its an authentic oriya dish that uses fish head, tail and channa dal.I know the name does not make much sense to non-oriya people actually it does not make much sense to me either as it really does not use any mudi :) Its generally cooked in wedding receptions in villages and its really important to people that it is a part of the feast. Ingredients : Fish head: 1 ( I used tilapia fish, back home its generally rohi )Fish tail: 1Channa dal: 1 cupTomato: 2 medium finely choppedPotato: 1 medium cut in cubesGrated ginger: 1 tspGinger garlic paste: 1 tbsOnion: 1 mediumCinnamon stick: 1 inch longCardamon: 2Bay leaf: 2Cumin seeds: 1 tspMustard seeds: 1/4 tspCoriander seeds: 1 1/2 tsp Red chilli: 4 wholeTurmeric: 2 tspOil: 4 tspSalt : as per tasteProcedure:

Wash and soak the channa dal for 2-3 hours. Marinate the fish with salt and half of the turmeric for about 5 minutes. Dry roast the cinnamon, cardamon, half of the cumin seeds, coriander seeds, 1 bay leaf and 2 red chilli Grind the onion alon…

As I mentioned in my previous blog there are so many different ways to make omelet here is one more version that has a very Indian touch to omelet. I learned it when I was staying with my friends during my early job days.

Procedure:In a pan heat 1 tsp of oil add green chili, onion and tomato with salt to taste.Cover and cook till the tomatoes are mushy.Add the red chili powder, Mutton/Chicken Masala Powder and coriander leaves and cook for 2 mins stirring occasionally.Remove from heat and let it cool down.Break the eggs add the cooled masala to it and beat it.In a pan heat the rest of the oil and pour the beaten egg and masala mix.Spread it around till you get the desired size and cook till almost done one side flip it and cook it through.Se…

Channa masala is the very first dish I ever cooked apart from experimenting on omelet. My mom never believed that I can make anything other than a nice salad. But Dad would always make me prepare tea for him and every time I would manage to screw that in one way or other ... still do ;)....So when one day with my mom's help I prepared this dish, she and my dad were assured that I can at least manage to cook something edible.

The moral is never underestimate the cooking skills of a gal who screws up a tea LOL....

Soak the black gram in water for 4-5 hours or overnight.Cook the dal in a pressure cooker with salt, till 2 whistlesIn a pan heat oil.Add onion and a pinch of salt. Cook till the onion turns transparentA…

When ever we have potlucks the concentration is on good food, great booze and loads of fun. If you ask the guys in the group what do you want for main course it would never be a vegetarian item and we end up making variety of non veg. But Sunita is our one and only vegetarian groupie and every time she is the one who would prepare some thing vegetarian. So this post is dedicated to her, as she introduced me to tawa pulao and makes its real good.

I am not sure if its the actual receipt for tawa pulao or not but this is how I make it. Sunita correct me if I am wrong :)